hazmat suit

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hazmat suit (plural hazmat suits)

(US) An impermeable suit covering the entire body to protect from biological or chemical hazards.
- 2020 December 10, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The first movie inspired by the pandemic is here, and it sucks”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
  Los Angeles is under permanent lockdown, and daily health checks are mandatory, the sick carted off to the ominous Q-Zone by armed sanitation workers in yellow hazmat suits.
- 2020 December, Dave Barry, "Year in review":
  […] put on your face mask, douse your entire body with hand sanitizer and then — to be safe — don a hazmat suit

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